Pos421 Windows Contrast

Windows Contrast

Learning Team A

POS421

September 15, 2011

James Taylor

Windows Contrast

Windows Contrast

Introduction

This paper is to compare and contrast the different components of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are built on the same platform, the main difference Server has some advance networking and server services. These come in the form of Active Directory which helps centralize administration. Windows XP is used more for small networks while Server 2003 is used for larger networks. We will examine these variations in the properties and aspects of security, networking cryptography, certificates, policies, logs, disk management, file systems, encryption, compression, and Kerberos authentication.

Security Properties, Security Analysis

Cryptography, Security Configuration and Analysis Snap In

With Windows Server Security it was originally designed to allow all users and applications to have administrator access to every file on the system. Windows has only gradually been re-worked to isolate users and what they do from the rest of the system. Windows Server 2003 is close to achieving this goal, but the methodology Microsoft has employed to create this barrier between user and system is still largely composed of constantly changing hacks to the existing design, rather than a fundamental redesign with multi-user capability and security as the foundational concept behind the system. IPsec is an Internet Protocol security standard that provides a general, policy–based IP layer security mechanism that is ideal for providing host-by-host authentication. IPsec policies are defined as having security rules and settings that control the flow of inbound and outbound traffic on a host system. These policies are managed centrally in Active...